This page presents the geographical name data for
Direction Island in
Cocos (Keeling) Islands, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Full Name
(see definition):
Direction Island
Primary Country Code
(see definition):
CK (Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
First-order administrative division code
(see definition):
00 (Cocos (Keeling) Islands (general) )
Region Font Code
(see definition):
1 (Americas/Western Europe)
Unique Feature Identifier
(see definition):
-1204591
Unique Name Identifier
(see definition):
-1770282
Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-12.1
Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
96.883333
Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
12° 06' 00" S
Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
96° 53' 00" E
Military Grid Reference System coordinates
(see definition):
47LKG6961961496
Joint Operations Graphic reference
(see definition):
SD47-01
Feature Classification
(see definition):
T (Hypsographic type featuree)
Feature Designation Code
(see definition):
ISL (island)
Populated Place Classification
(see definition):
No data
Second-order administrative division code
(see definition):
No data
Population Figures
(see definition):
No data
Elevations
(see definition):
No data
Secondary Country Code
(see definition):
No data
Name Type
(see definition):
N (BGN Standard name)
Language Code
(see definition):
No data
Substitute for full name
(see definition):
No data
Descriptive part of the full name
(see definition):
No data
A form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence
(see definition):
DIRECTIONISLAND
Full Name with QWERTY characters
(see definition):
Direction Island
Modify Date
(see definition):
1993-12-21
NOTE: The information regarding
Direction Island in
Cocos (Keeling) Islands on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the United States of America, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Direction Island information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Direction Island should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.